Celebrating 55 years of Vietnam Forestry Traditional Day

(Baonghean.vn) - On the afternoon of November 28, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development held a ceremony to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the traditional day of the Vietnam Forestry sector. Attending were comrades: Dinh Viet Hong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Ho Ngoc Sy - Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Over the past 55 years, the province has planted 75,000 hectares of concentrated forests, including more than 4,000 hectares of protective forests, special-use forests, and 70,000 hectares of production forests; planted 20 million scattered trees of large timber trees, rare timber trees, specialty trees, native trees, and raw material trees; exploited natural forests in forest areas according to sustainable forest management methods; exploited planted forests for wood processing and production of pulp, artificial boards, etc., about 600,000m3/year; Exports have increased sharply, from only 30 million USD in 2010 to 150 million USD in 2014, accounting for 35% of the province's total export value.

Comrade Dinh Viet Hong delivered a congratulatory speech on the traditional day of the Forestry sector.

Delegates attending the celebration

Socialization of forestry has created jobs and increased income for tens of thousands of households from contracting forest protection, afforestation, exploitation of forest products and forest services; The lives of forest workers have been increasingly improved, many highly effective forest farm models have appeared. The province has created an environmental protection belt, minimizing flash floods, regulating water resources, limiting damage caused by storms, protecting infrastructure works, fields, residents and preserving biodiversity. The forest system has covered almost all existing bare land with high-quality trees, improving the environment, bringing Nghe An's forest coverage to 54.6% in 2014, the province with the highest coverage compared to the whole country.

Delegates attending the celebration

Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Dinh Viet Hong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee praised the achievements of the forestry sector. In the coming time, the sector will focus on protecting and conserving natural forest areas, promoting the planting of forests and scattered trees; developing the processing industry to increase the value of forests.

At the ceremony, the forestry sector assigned the 2015 forest planting target to units with a total area of ​​1,000 hectares of protective forest, 50 hectares of special-use forest and 13,950 hectares of production forest, of which the replacement forest is expected to be 500 hectares.

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